74 Quotes by Gugu Mbatha-Raw

I'm interested in playing lots of different complex women.

In 2009, I was living in London and getting work I enjoyed.

Speaking as a mixed-race woman, there aren't many historical stories about people like me.

The 'Pride and Prejudice' with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle was something I watched on a weekly basis with my mum at home in Oxfordshire.

The actors that inspire me are the comedians and the people able to shape-shift into different roles and into different media.

This is going to sound really sad, but I didn't really have any heartthrobs when I was growing up. I was a bit of a geek.

I just love performing so much, and I threw myself into every musical theater production that was going in my home town and at school. And then, I went to the National Youth Music Theatre, which was really a galvanizing experience for me when I was 17.

I see L.A. as a workplace rather than somewhere to live. If I don't get out, I go crazy. If you have a little success, people treat you differently, so it's good to keep a healthy perspective. It's acting, not rocket science.

I've always sung. I was really into musical theater when I was growing up. As a kid, I listened to Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone, actually, on cassette tapes.